I've been thinking about Grosse Pointe Blank  a lot lately. Specifically, the scene in which Jeremy Piven repeatedly screams "TEN YEARS!!!" at John Cusack. Now you may be wondering why. Or, maybe not. Maybe you figured it out before you clicked the link. The point is, I don’t see another goddamn movie blogger, so pipe down. Anyway... ten years ago today, The Movie Moustache  went live. Although it was Moustache Movie News  back then. It all started with a little post about the then upcoming Jurassic World  sequel - what would turn out to be Fallen Kingdom   - and whether they should stop. Needless to say, they did not listen, as we've had three  Jurassic  sequels since then. And ten years later, even though I have enjoyed some of those sequels, I'm still wondering how many more dino adventures they could or should get out of this prehistoric franchise. But that's not the only milestone we've passed in the last decade. My favourite movie,  Ba...

Three improv actors are hired to do some low level undercover work for the police. But their improvisation leads them to accidentally infiltrate a major faction of London's criminal underworld. Have you ever sat through a movie waiting for the laughs to happen? That's was my experience with Deep Cover . Watching it with a group of friends, I was expecting the room to be filled with laughter, even if it was just at the ridiculousness of it all. But it never happened. There were some occasional smirks, that was it. And having finished watching it, the general consensus was that the movie is "watchable". It's a pretty standard story that aims for the usual sort of laughs. You certainly don't expect a movie like this to reinvent the wheel. However, the impressive cast do a pretty good job of setting the scene without ever trying to properly invest you in the story. Trouble is it's all painfully predictable. There are absolutely no surprises in store. And the a...

So Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) has reached the end of another chapter in his onscreen life.  Warning: Contains spoilers for Bosch: Leagacy  season 3. As much as he has been hindered by his return to civilian life - we all know Harry misses wearing the badge - he has also enjoyed the freedom of not being bound by the rules and regulations that come with being a law enforcement officer. And that's what makes Bosch: Legacy  so enjoyable; our adventure with the great detective continues, only now he's embracing his inner outlaw. It gives the show a bit of a different feel too. Unlike its predecessor, which is very much a police procedural, Legacy  is more about Harry's own quest for justice. He's not quite Batman , but there is definitely a degree of vigilantism to his work as a private investigator. Over three seasons Bosch and his motley crew have gone after corrupt businessmen, tracked down long lost family, pursued serial killers and kidnappers - including one who t...

When jolly old Saint Nick, A.K.A. 'Red One' (J.K. Simmons) is kidnapped, the head of his security detail, Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson) is forced to work with Jack O'Malley (Chris Evans) - a freelance hacker/tracker who claims he can find anyone, anywhere. But will the pair be able to get along in order to find Santa and save Christmas? With Red One , Jake Kasdan attempts to do for Christmas what he did for Jumanji ... and misses. Where Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  and Jumanji: The Next Level  were light-hearted, silly, and featured The Rock doing something a little different, Red One  takes itself way too seriously, is overly cheesy, and for a supposed Christmas movie it isn't all that festive. As for Johnson, well he's simply playing the type of character he usually plays; tough but straight. On the other hand, his co-star Chris Evans delivers a fine performance as the loveable rogue/Christmas sceptic, even though it feels like he's simply trying to escape ...

Once again Lee Child's literary character leaps from the page to the screen in the trailer for Reacher season 2. Check it out below. After introducing a new take on Jack Reacher - one much closer to Lee Child's vision - with a clever adaptation of the first novel Killing Floor , Alan Ritchson is back as the drifter/ex-military cop. It's a role he handles very well - both in performance and stature - and if the trailer is anything to go by Reacher's more unstoppable than ever! Watching him take care of a car jacker with extreme efficiency is not only incredibly enjoyable, it perfectly captures what fans love about this character. The second season is based on one of my favourite of the Reacher novels; Bad Luck and Trouble . Once again they've chosen a book in which Reacher has a personal stake in the situation, something that goes way beyond his everyday hatred of bad people - like the aforementioned car jacker. When members of his old team start showing up dead, Rea...

When a dangerous weapon is stolen by gangsters, the British Government hire a team of private contractors - led by Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes) and Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) - to acquire it. Their plan; get close to the broker responsible for organising the sale of the weapon (Hugh Grant), using a Hollywood actor (Josh Hartnett) with whom the broker has an obsession. I'm starting to think Guy Ritchie wasn't too happy about not getting to make a sequel to The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  (I know I wasn't). That's the feeling I get when watching Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre  (what a title!). It's like he decided that instead he would do his own take on James Bond and Mission: Impossible . Unfortunately, after a fun opening involving the recruitment of Elwes and Statham, it becomes inescapably clear that the movie suffers from a lack of Ritchie's signature flair - not to mention pretty much everything that made The Man from U.N.C.L.E. so cool. Making Operation For...

The story of the US Navy's first African-American aviator, Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors), and his wingman Tom Hudner (Glen Powell). From their training in the years after World War 2 for the much anticipated war with the Soviet Union. To combat operations during the Korean War. At first glance, and with the proximity of their releases - as well as other obvious connections - it's almost impossible to not make comparisons between Devotion  and Top Gun: Maverick . However, in reality this is like comparing Sense and Sensibility with Shaun of the Dead . Granted,  Top Gun: Maverick  is a movie about (or at least revolving around) Naval Aviators. But it's really about the flying, looking cool while doing it, and of course... never leaving your wingman. That is one way in which these two movies do connect. Because Devotion  - a title that may seem like an odd choice, but isn't - is more about the men than the flying. Which is under-stating it slightly. More accurately, it...

For Christmas I was given the Jack Ryan  movie boxset, and with the third season of the show starring John Krasinski now available on Amazon Prime, it seemed like the perfect time to revisit the franchise. Despite having been constantly rebooted and recast, the series has consistently produced tense and exciting action/thrillers...  mostly. Four out of five ain't bad! The Hunt for Red October The first of the Jack Ryan  movies has all the intrigue of a spy thriller, and all of the tension of a submarine movie, making it the perfect movie to kick off the franchise. Set at a time when Cold War hostilities were on the rise, we are drawn into this high-stakes battle of wills between the Soviet Union, the United States, and a lone submarine captain. Excellent performances and some clever cinematography give the movie a real sense of claustrophobia, allowing director John McTiernan to slowly ratchet up the tension, as Ryan struggles to make contact with the Red October and avoi...